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[Catholic Caucus] Whistleblowing Catholic Group Honors Rome’s Whistleblower — Viganò Milwaukee chapter of Catholics United for the Faith presents highest annual award to former papal nuncio MILWAUKEE (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Milwaukee Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF) — which has blown the whistle on  the local Catholic hierarchy for green-lighting LGBTQ activities within the archdiocese — has given its highest annual award to the Catholic Church's most prominent whistleblower of late: Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò. Archbishop Viganò, a former papal nuncio to the United States who has accused "the very top of the Church's hierarchy" of covering up systematic homosexual predation, was honored Saturday by 100 attendees of the...

Bowing to pressure from Catholic church sex abuse victims and the faithful, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Tuesday that it was removing the names of former Archbishops William E. Cousins and Rembert G. Weakland — both of whom took part in the coverup of sex crimes against children — from its headquarters complex and cathedral center. The archdiocese removed the sign outside the Archbishop Cousins Catholic Center, its headquarters complex in St. Francis on Tuesday. A new name will be announced and a temporary sign installed at 10 a.m. Friday. Weakland's name was quietly removed in recent days from the...